Kristof spoke on a panel with Soli Özel of Kadir Has University (Istanbul) and Nina Khrushcheva of the World Policy Institute on how to react to external crisis and conflict. He explored the shortcomings of the current response to the refugee crisis and presented ideas how to address them. For an upcoming paper on this topic please check here.

On 8 March Kristof was invited to a lunch at the Dutch residence in Vienna to discuss ESI's ideas for a reformed European asylum policy. Attending were Robert-Jan Sieben, head of the Dutch Foreign Ministry's Migration Task Force, Jan Willem de Wolf, the Dutch defence attaché to Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, Sascha Bollerman of the Dutch and Valentine Mangez of the Belgium Embassy to Austria.